Wanda Wiłkomirska (11 January 1929 – 1 May 2018) was a Polish

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and academic teacher. She was known for both the classical repertoire and for her interpretation of 20th-century music, having received two Polish State Awards for promoting

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to the world as well as other awards for her contribution to music. She gave world premiere performances of numerous contemporary works, including music by

Tadeusz Baird Tadeusz Baird (26 July 19282 September 1981) was a Polish composer. Biography Baird was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, in Poland. His father Edward was Scottish, while his mother Maria (née Popov) was Russian. In 1944 at the age of 16 he was dep ...

and

Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best known works include ''Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', ' ...

. Wiłkomirska performed on a violin crafted by

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in 1734 in

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. She taught at the music academies of

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and Sydney.

Biography

Born in Warsaw on 11 January 1929, Wanda Wiłkomirska first learned the violin from her father Alfred Wiłkomirski, and studied with Irena Dubiska at the Academy of Music in Łódź, graduating in 1947. She next attended the

Franz Liszt Academy of Music The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music ( hu, Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem, often abbreviated as ''Zeneakadémia'', "Liszt Academy") is a music university and a concert hall in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the ...

in Budapest where she studied under

Ede Zathureczky Ede Zathureczky (Igló, 24 August 1903 – Bloomington, 31 May 1959) was a Hungarian violin virtuoso and pedagogue. Life and career Ede Zathureczky was born in Igló, Kingdom of Hungary (now Spišská Nová Ves in Slovakia). His teacher was the ...

, graduating in 1950. She performed in Paris, which led to

Henryk Szeryng Henryk Szeryng (usually pronounced ''HEN-r-ik SHEH-r-in-g'') (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish violinist. Early years He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname "Szeryng" is a Poli ...

asking her to study with him. She won prizes at competitions in

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(1946), Budapest (1949) and

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(the

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, 1950; second prize). She also studied in Warsaw under , who helped her prepare for the

Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition The International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition ( Polish: ''Międzynarodowy Konkurs Skrzypcowy im. Henryka Wieniawskiego'') is a competition for violinists up to age 30 that takes place every five years in Poznań, Poland, in honor of the v ...

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in December 1952, where she played Karol Szymanowski's Concerto No. 1 for the first time (it became a favourite of hers). She shared second prize with

Julian Sitkovetsky Julian (Yulian) Grigoryevich Sitkovetsky (7 November 1925 – 23 February 1958) was a Soviet violinist. Biography Sitkovetsky was born in Kiev. He started violin lesson at age 4, first with his father, then with David Bertie at the Central School ...

; the first prize winner was

Igor Oistrakh Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (russian: И́горь Дави́дович О́йстрах; uk, Ігор Давидович Ойстрах 27 April 1931 – 14 August 2021) was a Soviet and Russian violinist. He was described by ''Encyclopædia Brita ...

. In 1953, she was awarded the Polish State Award for music in recognition of her "eminent violin artistry". In 1955, Wanda Wiłkomirska performed at the inauguration of the rebuilt Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, with the

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, playing Karol Szymanowski's First Violin Concerto under

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. She became the orchestra's principal soloist that year and gave many performances with the orchestra around the world, with such conductors as Rowicki,

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and

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. She held the position for 22 years. In 1961, she made her debut in the United States with the orchestra, which became the beginning of an international career. The American impresario

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(who managed such violinists as

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and

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) introduced her to enthusiastic audiences in the U.S. and Canada. She performed in over 50 countries, in all continents. In the 1960s and 1970s, she gave an average of 100 concerts per year. Wanda Wiłkomirska by Sławek

In 1969, she gave 37 performances in Australia, a country she later emigrated to. These interpretations won her great acclaim and she received further recital and concert proposals from Australian orchestras. In 1973, she was the first violinist to perform a solo recital in the newly built Sydney Opera House (she was accompanied by Geoffrey Parsons). In 1976 she helped inaugurate the

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in London with a performance of

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, scheduled to be conducted by Sir

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, but in the end by

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. Though married to a communist party official, in the 1970s Wiłkomirska became supportive of dissidents in Poland and in 1982, during the period of martial law in Poland, she announced during a concert tour in the West that she would not return to Poland at the end of the tour. One of her sons, Arthur, also defected to West Germany. In 1983, she accepted the chair of music professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. From that time, teaching became her great passion and an opportunity to share her instrumental skills and experience as a musician with the next generation of virtuosos. In 1999 she joined the teaching staff of the

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and since February 2001 also worked for the Australian National Academy of Music in

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. She continued to be a part of musical life in Europe, flying between the two continents for concerts, master classes and competitions, while remaining involved in musical life in Australia. Wiłkomirska was often a jury member at violin competitions, such as those held in Moscow, Tokyo, London,

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, Vienna, Graz,

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, and in Poland, in Poznań,

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, Łódź and Lublin.

Career

Wanda Wiłkomirska often performed in a piano trio, accompanied by her sister

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at the piano and her brother

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on the cello, as the Wiłkomirska Trio. She also played with

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, Daniel Barenboim,

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, Natalia Sheludiakova,

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and

Mischa Maisky Mischa Maisky ( lv, Miša Maiskis, he, מישה מייסקי, russian: Миша Майский; born 10 January 1948) is a Soviet-born Israeli cellist. Biography Mischa Maisky was born in 1948 in Riga and is the younger brother of organist, har ...

. Wiłkomirska gave premiere performances of various Polish contemporary compositions, such as: Grażyna Bacewicz's Violin Concerto No. 5 (1951) and Violin Concerto No. 7 (1979),

's ''Expressions'' (1959),

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's ''Dialogues'' (1966),

's ''Capriccio'' (1968),

Zbigniew Bargielski Zbigniew Bargielski (born 21 January 1937, in Łomża), is a Polish composer and teacher. His works have been performed in many European countries, the United States, Australia and South America. On 24 February 2011 he was awarded by the Minister o ...

's Violin Concerto (1977),

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's Violin Concerto (1980), Roman Maciejewski's Sonata (1998) and Włodzimierz Kotoński's Violin Concerto (2000).

Recitals

Wanda Wiłkomirska gave recitals and performed symphonic concerts in many famous halls, including: Carnegie Hall, the

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in Paris, Leipzig

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, the Royal Festival Hall, the Pyotr Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and the Berlin Philharmonie. She performed with the

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, the

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, the Hallé Orchestra, the

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, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the

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, the

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and the Berliner Philharmonic, with such celebrated conductors as:

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, Pierre Boulez,

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, Sir

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and

. She played only once with Leonard Bernstein, artistic differences leading them not to repeat the experience.

Recordings

In 1968, she began regularly recording for the

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record company in New York, for which she made 12 albums, some with the pianist Antonio Barbosa. Two of these won awards, namely "Best of the Year" (1972) and the "

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" (1974). She also recorded with Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Philips, Naxos, and Polskie Nagrania. Her recordings include the works of Accolay, Bacewicz, Bach, Baird, Bargielski, Bartok, Beethoven, Augustyn Bloch, Brahms, Bujarski, Dancla, Franck, Handel, Karlowicz, Khachaturian, Kreisler, Martini, Mussorgsky, Pallasz, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Shostakovich, Szymanowski, Tchaikovsky, Viotti and Wieniawski. Her recordings, mostly of chamber music, include: * ''Wanda Wiłkomirska plays Polish Music'', chamber music by Paderewski, Bacewicz, Zarzycki und Bargielski, with Paul Dam, Ambitus, amb97830 * Prokofieff: Two

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, with Ann Schein, piano, Connoisseur Society, CD 4079 * Works by Wieniawski, Lipinski and Bacewicz with Jadwiga Szamotulska, Gambit 1003-1 * Britten

, with the

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conducted by

, 1967, ''Orchestral Concert CDs'', CD12/2011 * ''Wanda Wilkomirska'', chamber music by Moussorgsky, Kreisler, Wieniawski, Debussy, Bartok, Szymanowski and Sarasate, with David Garvey, piano. Connoisseur Society CS2070 (LP) Original release in SQ QuAdraphonic sound. * Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 Op. 108; Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 "Spring" with Antonio Barbosa, piano. Connoisseur Society CS2080 Stereo * ''Fritz Kreisler's Beloved Melodies'', with Antonio Barbosa, piano. Connoisseur Society CS2022 Stereo * Ravel: ''Habanera'',

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; Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3, with Antonio Barbosa, piano. Connoisseur Society CS2038 Stereo * ''Bach: Music for unaccompanied violin'', Sonata No. 1; Partita No. 2 Connoisseur Society CS2040 Stereo * Franck:

; Szymanowski: '', Mythes'', with Antonio Barbosa, piano. Connoisseur Society CS2050 Quadraphonic * Delius: Three Violin Sonatas, with David Garvey, piano. Connoisseur Society CS2069 Quadraphonic (1987) * Brahms: Violin Sonatas No. 1 and No. 2, with Antonio Barbosa, piano. Connoisseur Society CS2079 Quadraphonic

Personal life

Wanda Wiłkomirska married journalist

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in 1952, editor-in-chief of ''

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'' since 1958. They divorced in 1977, two years after Rakowski joined the Central Committee of the communist

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(PZPR). Rakowski later became

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(1988–89) and First Secretary of the PZPR and established a reputation as a liberalizing reformist, influenced by Wiłkomirska and dissidents he met through her. They had two sons, one of whom emigrated to Australia. Her mother, Dorota Wiłkomirska (née Dvoira Temkin, 1901–1986), was a pianist and music teacher, who also published several note collections for children. Wiłkomirska died on 1 May 2018 in Warsaw, aged 89.

Honours

* Polish State Awards (1953, 1964) *

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(1981) * Commander Cross with a Star (2001) * Medal for her work for the Polish community in Australia (2005) * Award of the Karol Szymanowski Foundation (1997) for "a special emphasis on Karol Szymanowski's music; unique, ardent and expressive interpretation thereof; and propagation of his music worldwide." * Honorary Doctorate from the Music Academy in Łódź (2006).

References

External links

Official Website
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Discography
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David Dubal interview with Wanda Wiłkomirska (1 of 4)
WNCN-FM, 6-Jun-1980
David Dubal interview with Wanda Wiłkomirska (2 of 4)
WNCN-FM, 13-Jun-1980
David Dubal interview with Wanda Wiłkomirska (3 of 4)
WNCN-FM, 20-Jun-1980
David Dubal interview with Wanda Wiłkomirska (4 of 4)
WNCN-FM, 27-Jun-1980
I’LL PLAY IT FOR YOU
Ein Dokumentarfilm über die Geigerin Wanda Wiłkomirska (2008) *
Interview with Wanda Wilkomirska
sigridharris.wordpress.com 2007 * Michał Buczkowski
In Memoriam: Wanda Wiłkomirska
(in Polish) sbs.com 2 May 2018
Happy birthday, Michael Gielen!

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Poland’s violin virtuoso Wanda Wilkomirska dies at age 89
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